Industry Prices

Germany: Softwood lumber prices between boom and crisis – forecast 2023

Despite the construction crisis and the economic crisis, wood prices in Germany have held up surprisingly well. The prices for [...]

China to reduce tariffs on wood products with effect from Jan 2023

According to the Ministry of Finance of China, the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council has issued an announcement [...]

One of the largest sawmill companies in Russia to stop all wood pellet production

ULK Group, the largest sawmill company in the Northwest of Russia, will stop all of its pellet production facilities due [...]

US lumber prices continue to fall despite low inventories

Wood-pricing service Random Lengths said that its framing-lumber composite index dropped in the last week of 2022 to [...]

New Zealand: Falling log exports and prices to China

According to the latest import and export data released by the customs, the overall export of New Zealand radiata pine [...]

Germany: Wood price evolution for 2023 still uncertain

Due to the fact that more people are using firewood during the energy crisis, prices are also rising in Rhineland [...]

Austria: Softwood log price overview in December 2022

The global economic downturn has now also reached Austria. Exports and the added value of the domestic industry shrank. Due [...]

Swedish sawmills are unexpectedly strong due to high US demand

One of the explanations for the unexpected strength in a currently declining wood products economy is how much wood products [...]

Prices of wood pellets continue to fall in Germany

Prices for wood pellets have fallen further in November and have now been following a pronounced downward trend since the [...]

African sawmill and plywood mills feel the effects of reduced Chinese demand

The slowdown in demand in China is becoming a serious problem for operators in the region with saw and ply [...]